Improvement in cork-fasteners



UNITED STATES JAMES H. PARKHURST, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORK-FASTENERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 146,471, dated January13, 1874; application-filed April 2, 1873.

To all fwhom t may concern:

Be it known that I, J AMES H. PARKHURST, of St. Louis, St. Louis county,Missouri, have invented a certain Improved Fastener for Bottle-Gorks, ofwhich the following is a specification: v

The subject of my invention is a wire fast` ener for bottle-cork s,constructed with vertical shanks to beat-tached at their lower ends tothe neck by a wire tie or band, in the usual manner, vertically, andrecurved shoulders connecting the upper ends of said shanks with thehorizontal head-piece, which bears on the top of the cork, the verticalcurvature of the said shoulders serving to prevent the lateralconnections between the shanks and the head from becoming embedded inthe cork. The primary object 'of this device is to provide a fasteningwhich, while holding sufficiently to avoid danger of accidentaldisplacement, will not be rendered difficult to detach with the thumb byany lapse of time or any pressure within the bottle.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my fastening. Figs.2, 3, and 4 are,

respectively, front and side elevations and al top view of amodification of the same.

A is the upper part of the bottle neck, surrounded by the usual holding-wire B, in which are formedthe eyes to receive the out-turned endsc ofthe side pieces or shanks C, forming the hinges of the fastener. rIlheside pieces are bent over inward at D, and curved forward and rebent atd. The parallel head-pieces E extend beneath the parts D, and are helddown thereby. The head-pieces E are turned toward each other at e, andboth turned upward and half twisted together at f, and meet in avertical thumb-loop, F, transverse to the headpieces E, and consequentlyto the line of movement of the fastener upon the cork.

The twisted thumb-loop is much` stron ger than a simple Ubend would be.It provides the means by which the fastener may be easily moved withoutthe use of an ice-pick or other instrument, the use of which frequentlycauses the destruction of the fastener, and often of the bottle.

In the modification shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 4, the side pieces orshanks C have, at the top, simple vertical bends D, as shown; and thereturn bends d are dispensed with, the headpiece having a simple U-beudwith the twisted thumb-loop F, as in Fig. 1.

I claim- A stopper-fastener, constructed with shanks C, recurvedshoulders D, and horizontal bearing-head E, all arranged to operatesubstantially as specified.

JAS. H. PARKHURST.

-Witnesses SAME. KNTGHT, ROBERT BURNS.

